Description
Gauthier Dance and Hofesh Shechter: a wonderful friendship that led to an overwhelming demand from Stuttgart dance fans. The greatest hits programme ANTHOLOGY, which was meant to wrap the current season, will now be given a different, personal touch and become ANTHOLOGY Shechter X Gauthier Dance. The small showcase pays tribute to our artist in residence and fills a gap. Because the big summer hit of 2023 – Shechter's Contemporary Dance 2.0 – was clearly not scheduled often enough for the liking of Stuttgart's dance aficionados. Eric Gauthier has responded to this by combining the mesmerising dance party with another Shechter, SWAN CAKE from the Swan Lakes programme. What’s more, Shechter will create a very special addition – a „bonus track“ that will, for the first time, bring the main company and the Gauthier Dance JUNIORS together on stage in a new choreography.
Contemporary Dance 2.0
From its sudden opening, this choreography proves as overpowering as a great piece of cinema. Driven by the pure rapture of movement and, as always, Hofesh Shechter's own unmistakable sound, the dancers quickly surrender themselves to an almost hypnotic flow – and so does the audience. What’s more, Contemporary Dance 2.0 turned out to be the perfect lure for young viewers, as Eric Gauthier had hoped. Many came to the Theaterhaus for the first time – all were thrilled: by the club atmosphere, by Shechter's ingenious soundtrack, but above all by the sheer virtuosity and irrepressible drive of the eight dancers.
Choreography & Composition: Hofesh Shechter
Lighting Design: Tom Visser
Original Costume Design: Osnat Kelner
Choreographic Assistant: Chien-Ming Chang
Technical Advisor: Alan Valentine
SWAN CAKE
Shechter is a master at merging dancing bodies into a single entity – and SWAN CAKE is no exception. His self-composed soundtrack, complete with cheeky hidden allusions to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake music, forms the group into a swarm in which the movements spread organically from dancer to dancer. The irresistible, laid-back rhythm not only gets the „swans“ going. The catchy tune stays in people's heads long after the show has ended.
Choreography & Composition: Hofesh Shechter
Lighting Design: Mario Daszenies & Hofesh Shechter
Costume Design: Gudrun Schretzmeier & Hofesh Shechter
Choreographic Assistant: Kim Kohlmann
Bonus Track
Dual novelty value: The world premiere of Bonus Track is also the first new creation uniting the main company and the Gauthier Dance JUNIORS on stage – a total of 22 dancers! As if that wasn't enough „doubles“, Eric Gauthier has asked his artist in residence to choreograph a piece that functions both as the final piece of ANTHOLOGY and as an independent work that is suitable for mobile use, ideally also outdoors. As a genuinely barrier-free work that brings contemporary dance to young audiences in particular. Anyone who knows Shechter will have no doubt that he will master the challenge effortlessly. Especially as the origins of Bonus Track lie precisely in such an outreach programme. Some time ago, Shechter adapted elements from his choreography Clowns for his own company for some open-air performances in London, albeit with a much smaller cast of eight dancers. On this basis, he will now choreograph a tailor-made new version for and with Gauthier Dance and also rework his – as always original – soundtrack. The result, Shechter hopes, will be a Bonus Track in the truest sense of the word – a little jewel as a sparkling addition to this first all-Shechter show for Stuttgart.
Choreography & Composition: Hofesh Shechter
Lighting Design: Mario Daszenies
Costume Design: Gudrun Schretzmeier & Hofesh Shechter
Rehearsal Director: Kim Kohlmann
